Refrigerator



UNITED STATES PTENT OFFICE.

BENDETTO URSO, OF WATSON, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHESTER C. SHINN, OF FAIRMQNT, WEST VIRGINIA.

REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 30, 1919. Serial No. 334,425.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Bnnnnrro Unso, a subject of the King of Italy, residing at lVatson, in the county of Marion and State of West Virgina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to refrigerators for containing bottles holding beverages to be kept cool so as to render the drink more palatable and enjoyable.

A primary feature of the invention is to provide for separation of the different beverages so that the one required may be quickly obtained without necessitating loss of time and a waste of the cooling medium.

The drawings illustrate a preferred embodiment of the invention. However, it is to be understood that in adapting the same to meet different conditions, various changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention as claimed hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawingsf- Figure 1 is a front view of a refrigerator embodying the invention, one set of doors being open and the other set closed.

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 looking to the right'as designated by the arrow and having a portion of the upper door broken away.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and referred to in the several views of the drawings by like reference characters.

The body of the refrigerator may be of any relative dimensions and its walls and doors are double, and the space suitably filled. In accordance with the present invention, it is preferred to construct the refrigerator so that the distance between the front and back corresponds to the length of the largest size bottles to be placed therein. The interior of the refrigerator comprises an upper ice chamber 1 and a lower storage chamber 2. An ice rack 3 divides the ice chamber 1 from the storage chamber 2, and is adapted to support the ice by means of of which the interior of the refrigerator is cooled. The front of the refrigerator is closed by means of upper doors 4; and lower doors 5. The upper doors 4 close the front of the ice chamber and the doors 5 close the front of the storage chamber. Access may be readily had to either chamber without interfering with the other. The strip 6 dividing the ice and storage chambers may receive labels designating the nature of the beverage contained in the bottle stored within the refrigerator.

A plurality of shelves 7 is disposed with the storage chamber 2. The shelves 7 are supported upon suitable rests and are corrugated to form seats for holding the bottles 8 in spaced position so that the cold air and the water dripping from the ice may circulate and effectively cool the bottles containing the beverage. The bottoms of the depressions or corrugations may be formed with drain openings to provide outlets for the drip water accumulating within the corrugations thereby insuring the cold water of an upper shelf coming in direct contact with the rows of bottles of a lower shelf. The sheives 7 preferably consist of sheet metal suitably reinforced. The bottom of the refrigerator siopes to a given point at which is disposed a drain pipe 9 whereby the drippings from the ice may discharge into a suitable receptacle arranged to receive the drippings as will be readily understood.

- Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and d esireto securcby Letters Patent, is

A refrigerator having its interior divided into communicating chambers forming, respectively, an upper ice chamber and a lower storage chamber, an ice-rack between the chambers, a drain in the storage chamber, and a plurality of vertically spaced shelves extending transversely of the storage chambers between the drain and the ice-rack for supporting articles in the path of the icedrippings. said shelves provided with means for successively collecting and draining the drip-water from the articles of a higher shelf to the articles of a. lower shelf whereby the dripwater may be brought into direct contact with each article of every shelf.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BENDETTO URSO.

' Vitnesses:

M. L. STURM, H. L. CRIss.

Patented Aug. 30, 1921. 

